Analytics with Tableau
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What is Tableau Desktop?
Tableau Desktop is a data visualization product from Tableau. It connects to a variety of data sources for combining disparate data sources without coding. It provides tools for discovering patterns and insights, data calculations, forecasts, and statistical summaries and visual…
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- Report sharing and collaboration (156)9.393%
- Drill-down analysis (158)9.292%
- Customizable dashboards (165)9.090%
- Formatting capabilities (161)9.090%
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- No setup fee
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- $70 per month
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What is Tableau Desktop?
Tableau Desktop supports data-driven decisions by helping users to answer questions more quickly, solve harder problems more easily, and uncover new insights.
Tableau Desktop connects directly to hundreds of data sources, both on-premises or in the cloud, with the goal of making it easier to start analyses. Interactive dashboards, drag and drop functionality, and natural language queries help users of all skill levels quickly discover actionable insights, all from its visual interface. Users can ask deeper questions by quickly building calculations, adding trend lines and seeing statistical summaries, or clustering data to see relationships.
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Tableau Desktop Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Tableau Desktop is a data visualization product from Tableau. It connects to a variety of data sources for combining disparate data sources without coding. It provides tools for discovering patterns and insights, data calculations, forecasts, and statistical summaries and visual storytelling.
Tableau Desktop starts at $70.
IBM Cognos Analytics, SAP Lumira Discovery, and Qlik Sense are common alternatives for Tableau Desktop.
Reviewers rate Report sharing and collaboration and Publish to Web highest, with a score of 9.3.
The most common users of Tableau Desktop are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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- 6.1Performance
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- 9.4In-Person Training
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- 7Product Scalability
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- Displaying complex trending data in simplified format
- Creating stories to use as presentation materials with data highlights
- Customized statistical models with trending predictions
- Formatting the data to work correctly in graphical presentations can be time consuming
- Daily data extracts can run slowly depending on how much data is required and the source of the data
- The desktop version is required for advanced functionality, editing on [the] Tableau server allows only limited features
- Storytelling.
- Data visualization.
- Data analysis.
- Pricing.
- Poor support.
- Lags sometimes.
May 10, 2021
Tableau - best tool for starting BI
- Nice UI for designers and users.
- Easy to create new dashboards.
- A wide range of connectivity.
- Handling large data sets.
- Very easy to use
- Wide selection of graphs and charts
- Excellent array of toolips
- Good for advanced users as allows deep level of customisation
- UI could be more intuitive
- Stand alone product from the web editor so requires additional setup and installation
- Easier use for managing custom parameters
May 03, 2021
Tableau dashboarding experience
- The Visualizations graphics are really good and the color options help in designing attractive charts. They help to convey more information and can be made interactive.
- You can add filters with offer you to plug and play with values and understand different outcomes.
- You can drag and drop options while creating charts and dashboards. also it is a very fluid layout.
- When handling use amounts of data the system slows down or freezes.
- You need to update parameter as your data changes
- You cannot import visuals from other platforms
April 30, 2021
Quick and easy solution
- Quick
- Easy
- No code
- Costly
- Non-transferrable knowledge
- Have to work locally
April 30, 2021
Highly Flexible Tool with Endless Possibilities
- Tableau does visualizations very well.
- It is more intuitive than other BI products.
- A lot of flexibility on the backend for those with developer skills.
- Cleaning and organizing data can be cumbersome.
- Filters and prompts can be tricky.
- It can take a little longer to learn than other tools.
April 29, 2021
30,000 ft. view of our Tableau implementation
- Easy-to-use interface
- Customizable
- Easy to share with clients or teams
- Expensive
- Customer support is lacking
April 29, 2021
Good tool with high price
- Easy integration with multiple sources like MSExcel,Oracle etc
- Small learning curve.
- Many inbuilt chart options available.
- Executive view option
- Error messages are not self explanatory .I was doing integration with oracle data but seeing different errors with same query in two systems.
- Bit expensive .
- Sometimes is slow and behave weirdly with large datasets.
April 28, 2021
Tableau Desktop: one of the best BI tools
- Very rich set of features
- A large set of connection options
- Attractive UI
- Tableau UI is very attractive but at the same times looks a bit intimidating for the new user
- For settings where you may need to cater to a large set of subscribers, Tableau is cost-prohibitive
- Quantitative analysis and trending.
- Easily proves or disproves hypotheses about operational factors that drive data trends.
- Allows subject-matter experts to visually display the story being told by the underlying data in a way that non-experts are able to understand.
- Blending qualitative and quantitative information for visual presentations.
- Level of detail can be somewhat challenging for new users to fully understand.
- Easier editing of published data sources would be a nice-to-have.
April 27, 2021
Easy to use, yet powerful data visualization tool
- Data visualization.
- Setting up database and queries.
- Live report.
- Notifications.
- Error reasons to fix problems.
- More formats and types of charts.
- Deeply linking with third-party tools.
April 27, 2021
Tableau Desktop - intuitive dashboards and ease of use
- The learning curve is minimal.
- Easy to use and very intuitive.
- Tableau provides good quality online help.
- The dashboards alignment can sometimes become a challenge.
- It doesn't have the donuts/ the ring as a native visualization format.
- Sometimes is difficult when dealing with dates calculations.
April 27, 2021
Good product that keeps up with the times
- Customizable
- Easy to use
- Great for end users
- Some of the functions can be tricky at first
- Making it easier to make data changes after the fact
- Ability to change the layout (If not already there)
April 27, 2021
Tableau Desktop Review
- Direct import of excel data sheets and other data sources.
- Various charts makes the data presentation much better.
- It can connect to multiple data sources simultaneously.
- Price is the major factor, costing is a bit high.
- Version support is poor.
- One needs proper training in order to use this tool effectively.
April 27, 2021
Get your data to talk
- Clear Presentation
- Easy to use and learn
- Good repository of learning materials online
- Connection to Microsoft apps
- Easier access for users who dont have a license
April 26, 2021
Tableau - Still Good But No Longer the King
- Excellent visualizations.
- Initial entry to the tool is intuitive.
- Large number of sources supported.
- Once getting past the basics, creating more complex structures and calculations can be more challenging and less intuitive than other reporting tools.
- Maintaining version synchronization between server and desktop is annoying. Would be better if the server compatibility could be specified in the desktop.
- Support for 3rd party olap technologies could be better.
- Dashboard and Tile creation
- Having various data sources connectivity
- Support for various way of displaying the data
- Good documentation support
- Dashboard display speed once user selects a filter can be super slow depending on how much data the dashboard is displaying
- Not all the data sources are supported natively, for some others we have to find work-arounds
- License is expensive
April 08, 2021
Tableau Desktop: A Solid Data Exploration Tool
- Visualization of data
- Basic trend analysis of time series data
- Basic exploration of data
- Sharing data via Tableau dashboards
- Lacking more sophisticated statistical tools
- Difficult to integrate with code environments
- Expensive, especially Tableau Server
April 08, 2021
Super Tableau
- For professional dashboard
- We can also sync Tableau Desktop with other tools
- We can also use for forecasting purpose
- It is complete package don't see as of now we required any improvement
December 28, 2020
Must use. Great ROI. Easy to learn and comprehend.
- Extremely easy to use
- Great options for charts
- Great color palette and filtering capabilities
- Easy to use on mobile
- Handling big data
- Less expensive
- Tableau University for teaching new users
December 04, 2020
Tableau Desktop brings data visualizations to you
- Ease of use
- Nice visualizations
- Strong in geospatial capabilities
- Flexible to deploy
- Performance in large datasets
- Needs more advanced analytics capability
- Needs adaptors for migration from other BI platforms
May 15, 2020
Expensive, but good
- Consolidate data
- Gives a variety of graphs to choose from
- Provide executive views
- Connectivity with SharePoint documents and other enterprise software
- Increase drag and drop functionality
March 05, 2020
Tableau Desktop Review
- Data connection
- Dataset joining and blending
- Visualization
- Storytelling
- Dashboarding
- Calculation feature
- Filters
- Formating
February 11, 2020
Good for a lone wolf
- Instantly changes views of data to slice and dice depending on need.
- Map feature is fantastic.
- Tableau is very customizable, which means that a lot of simple analytics tools have to be built from scratch.
- Importing data is not always intuitive to a lay person like me.